Free shopping in Yahoo Avatar Town!

Instead of boring 2D interface, now you can select your favorite avatar in Yahoo Avatar Town, a shopping town where you can find the fashion! The address is http://avatars.yahoo.com/avatar_towns.html

Go to the town in the daytime and nighttime, they are different ;)!

Remove IE7 search bar

It seems that, for many people who have updated their IE6 to IE7, the search bar is useless. Many still like to type in Google or Yahoo address in the address bar. Thus, for those people, the search bar is unwanted. There are three ways to remove it.

1. if you are using windows XP pro, congratulations, you can use the Group Policy to remove it.
   Start-->Run, type in gpedit.msc. Then go to
   User Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Windows Components-->Internet Explorer.
   Set the branch, "Prevent the Internet Explorer search box from displaying", to ENABLED.
   
   
2. Save the following content as a .reg file, and double click to import it.
   
   REGEDIT4
   
   [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
   "NoSearchBox"=dword:00000001
   
   
3. If you prefer an easy way, go to http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/12/remove-search-bar-from-ie-7.html, and download the special software to remove it.

[1, 2] Reference: http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=58777

Creat an empty page in Latex

It is necessary to use a trick when creating an empty page in Latex. The following code does the job:

\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\mbox{}

The major part is \mbox{}, which ensures the existence of an empty page.

The usage of \thispagestyle is \thispagestyle{option}. The option can be:

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plain - Just a plain page number.

empty - Produces empty heads and feet - no page numbers.

headings - Puts running headings on each page. The document style specifies what goes in the headings.

myheadings - You specify what is to go in the heading with the \markboth or the \markright commands.

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The usage of \thispagestyle comes from Hypertext Help with LaTeX.